Free Grocery Shopping Planner-Sheet 2

Since I'm now "starting over" with meal planning, I've made a new grocery shopping list for us. John shops now on Wednesday nights and Sundays. I work on getting my list done on Tuesdays. I plan for Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday (he shops for these things on Wednesday). I write in the meals in the boxes and under the boxes write what ingredients I need. Then on the lower half of the sheet I neatly write out his grocery list. Click here for PDF Grocery Planner Sheet.

This is a help because he'll often say, "purple, watermelon flavored diced tomatoes"?? What are those for? Now with the meals at the top written in the boxes, I can say, "oh, that's for Thursday night, the watermelon lasagna" (for a silly example).

Finally-A Month Of Meals!

John started a new job recently. At John's old job, he stayed late at work Mondays and Thursday nights, so I did hot dogs and macaroni & cheese for a quick dinner for the kids since he wasn't home. When I started planning meals, I only did Tuesday and Wednesday because we had our Tuesday group and on Wednesdays we went to church. So though time was tight, we had family dinners two nights per week. I soon added Saturday and Sunday to my plan because, well, we need to eat dinner on those days, too!

So I just recently finished my MONTH! WOW, all these meals are real meals that I would eat!

Now that John is working a new job (very close to home!) he is home every night for family dinner! This has been a life dream of mine...family dinners! I'm pinching myself! Not only is John HOME at dinnertime but I have dinner ready! Mind-boggling the transformation I've gone through! Thanks to Lifestyle of Learning!

A practical note: I've been using blank paper and a 3-ring binder for my planning. It is SO much easier to keep things simple...from my planning sheet to my grocery shopping list to printing out recipes from the web...FORGET 4"x6" recipe cards! I have found if I keep everything the SAME SIZE, my life is just BETTER!